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A Room Full of Candy

A Room Full of Candy. By: Brandi Ripa. Purpose/ Background. Authentic Assessment Encompasses many skills Collaborative Groups Taps into higher levels of thinking Can be modified to include preferences of students.

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A Room Full of Candy

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  1. A Room Full of Candy By: Brandi Ripa

  2. Purpose/ Background • Authentic Assessment • Encompasses many skills • Collaborative Groups • Taps into higher levels of thinking • Can be modified to include preferences of students

  3. Goal: Students will be able to apply their knowledge of volume, area, and measurements to authentic scenarios. • Objectives: • Using various measuring tools, students will accurately measure various objects. • Using a calculator, students will be able to make conversions between units of measurements. • After finding necessary measurements, students will be able to calculate its volume/area. • Given one dimension, students will be able to use their knowledge of proportions and similar shapes to solve for the other dimensions. • Given the price of one unit, students will be able to find the total price of x units.

  4. Part 1- Data Collection

  5. 10.25 ft 6 in= 0.5 ft 12.375 ft 0.083 ft 0.083 ft 8.0 ft 1,014.75ft3 0.0034ft3 4

  6. Part 2- Calculations 5. x 3. 6. WallsCandy WallsCandy 4. (# of pieces to fill the room) x $.75 pieces of candy x .75 = $223,841.25 pieces of candy Height 8ft Length 48.19ft Width 8ft

  7. = hours 18 minutes 7. Crew = 3 members = 69 hours 5 minutes ($20 x 207)+ ($2 x 18)=$4,176 8. Use same proportion as 7 9. Separate hours from minutes

  8. Part 3- Final Estimate Write up a final estimate to give the costumer for the work you and your crew will complete in order to fill the room with candy. Be sure to include the cost of materials, cost of labor, expected time frame it will take to complete the job.

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